- 23:02 17/11/2009
A Russian communist legislator on Tuesday suggested removing the word "God" from the national anthem in order to unite the multiethnic country.
- 22:47 17/11/2009
Mikhail Lesin, a media aide to the Russian president, has resigned, the Kremlin press service said Tuesday.
- 22:31 17/11/2009
Russia loses up to two trillion rubles ($70 billion) annually due to drug-related crimes, Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said on Tuesday.
- 20:17 17/11/2009
The creation of a Ukrainian-Polish-Lithuanian peacekeeping brigade is an attempt by the West to woo former post-Soviet countries while not formally admitting them to NATO, a Russian analyst said Tuesday.
- 18:57 17/11/2009
More than 5,600 swine flu cases have been officially confirmed in Russia, the health minister said on Tuesday.
- 18:49 17/11/2009
Russia is close to finishing the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant and is currently making final adjustments, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Tuesday.
- 16:56 17/11/2009
Three rare Amur leopards have been born in Primorye Region, an Amur department spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund said on Tuesday.
- 16:55 17/11/2009
The U.S. ambassador to Moscow confirmed on Tuesday that the United States will continue to use Russian Soyuz spacecraft after space shuttles retire from service in 2010.
- 16:36 17/11/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Stockholm on Tuesday for an EU-Russia summit to focus on energy security and a new cooperation pact, a Kremlin aide said.
- 16:23 17/11/2009
The U.S. ambassador said Russia and the United States have good chances of signing a new nuclear arms reduction treaty this year.
- 14:44 17/11/2009
Police have seized 9.5 kilograms of heroin from a pensioner in the Sverdlovsk Region of Russia's Urals, the local police force said on Tuesday.
- 14:37 17/11/2009
A new nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States may yet be signed by December 5, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 14:30 17/11/2009
Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday there was no connection between the ongoing international dispute over Iran's nuclear program and a delay in launching the country's first nuclear power plant.
- 13:56 17/11/2009
Russia's crude oil output (including gas condensate), expanded 0.8%, year-on-year in January-October 2009 to 410 million metric tons (3 billion barrels), the country's top statistics body Rosstat said on Tuesday.
- 13:22 17/11/2009
Russia and Slovakia have signed a deal on long-term cooperation in nuclear power engineering, Russia's state nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly AtomStroyExport said on Tuesday.
- 11:40 17/11/2009
Gas consumption in Europe will fall a record 5-7% in 2009, Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said on Tuesday.
- 10:34 17/11/2009
Three tramps in Russia's Urals city of Perm killed an acquaintance, ate his remains and then sold the rest of his body to a nearby kebab house, Russian media have reported.
- 06:41 17/11/2009
Regular transit of U.S. military cargo and personnel to Afghanistan over the Russian territory will start soon after the final logistics issues have been resolved
- 05:25 17/11/2009
Bookstores in New York and London will start on Tuesday the sales of Vladimir Nabokov's final unfinished novel, 'The Original of Laura.'
